Author: Tweddell, Hubberstey Maddison
Biography:
TWEDDELL, Hubberstey Maddison (1799-1871: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 28 or 29 Apr. 1799 and baptised at St. Marylebone on 12 June, the second of five sons of Francis Tweddell (1771-1808), Northumberland landowner, Justice of the Peace, and later of the Six Clerks’ Office in the Court of Chancery, London, and his first wife, Esther Harrison (1780-1802), who had married at St. Clement Danes, Strand, London, in 1797. He was the nephew of John Tweddell (1769-99), the Athenian traveller and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, and he advertised that connection on the title page of his verse tragedy, Aguilhar (1820). He trained as a surgeon in London (MRCS 1824) and entered the Bengal Army (Assistant Surgeon 1825, Surgeon 1839, Surgeon Major 1860). He served with the Saugor and Nerbudda Field Force in 1842-3 and in the Gwalior (December 1843) and the First Sikh War or Sutlej (1845-6) campaigns. He was appointed Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals in London in 1862. He married Augusta Mary Arntz (1820-1902) on 22 Nov. 1838 at the British Embassy, Paris, with the consent of her mother. They went on to have two daughters and a son, all born in India. He died on 27 Aug. 1871 at 15 Royal Road, Ramsgate, Kent, leaving an estate of under £1500. (ancestry.co.uk 12 Feb. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 12 Feb. 2023; Captain T. C. Anderson, Ubique: War Services of All the Officers of H.M.’s Bengal Army [1863], 613; N&Q 30 July 1864) AA
Other Names:
- H. Maddison Tweddell